Win the Cold War; beat the Germans and the Japanese in the battle for economic supremacy; outduel the Chinese and Indians in the training of scientists and engineers; Americanize millions of children not just from Southern and Eastern Europe, which Commager celebrated, but from a hundred Third World cultures he thought little about; make every child "proficient" in English and math; educate the blind, the mentally handicapped, and the emotionally disturbed to the same levels as all others; teach the evils of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and premarital sex; prepare all for college; teach immigrants in their native languages; teach driver's ed; feed lunch to poor children; entertain the community with Friday-night football and midwinter basketball; sponsor dances and fairs for the kids; and serve as die prime (and often the only) social-welfare agency for both children and parents. The list is long: new curricula like the SMSG (School Mathematics Study Group) program (i.e., the "new" math), PSSC (Physical Sciences Study Committee) physics, plus similar programs in chemistry, biology, and the social sciences, nearly all devised by academics at Harvard and MIT in the late 1950s and early 1960s; compensatory education programs for disadvantaged students; Head Start; magnet schools; "computer-assisted instruction"; "open schools"; team teaching; class-size reduction; new programs for special education; bilingualism and Ebonics; calls for bigger high schools; calls for smaller high schools; more homework; less homework; laptops for all students; constructivist math; Discovery Learning; Direct Instruction; merit pay; voucher plans; "Whole School Reform"; Success for All; charter schools; KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) schools; Edison Schools; Accelerated Schools; school accountability; adequate yearly progress; high-stakes testing for promotion; exit exams; plus an alphabet soup of similar programs.